As for which brush was used, that's more usually a means of distinguishing one painter from another. "Artist A uses loose, open brushwork in his portraits, while Artist B has a smoothly-blended style."

Thus, almost without being noticed, that intention of create objects with aesthetic value introduced the first major difficulty or contradiction in the fractal works: if was not possible to create them on realistic traditional ways, with the use of perspective, with forms borrowed from nature and with natural colors, how then assume that fractal can express the neatly integrated world and reality as "natural, beautiful and known," like art until the nineteenth century had shown?

Under such a round of circunstances the beauty as it was tradicionally known is not possible – is not even possible to assure there is some beauty there!

We face a huge challenge: to determine once and for all that the beauty of the world does not matter. That is, what is in the image is not what counts but, paradoxically, what the image does not represent – the absence of reality – is what must interests us. The problem for artists is… – What to do to give a meaning to such a thing? Well, this is also a big issue for all modern art: it is no longer making art what matters, but to say what art is what counts.

I want to finish with an edition of few sentences taken from the introductory pages of Arthur C. Danto´s The Madonna of the Future, telling how he does his art critic work: “In general what I undertake to do in these reviwes is to describe what the work is about – what it means – and how this meaning is embodied in the work (…) the being of a work of art is its meaning. Art is a mode of thought and experiencing art consists of thought engaging with thought. It is, I suppose, possibily to treat a work of art as a mere thing to gratify the eyes (…) but even the most optically engaging art is a vehicle of meaning, wich has to be unpacked to do more by way of criticism tham simply to express one´s pleasure in it.”

Art is meaning!

As far as UF layering, it's a technique just like any other–it allows more color and depth in an image, which fits with my style. It is not intrinsically bad. My pure UF images average from 5 to 15 layers.